![Codex Leicester, 32v. - Page without figures, containing observations on watercourses and on physical geography. On the lower part of the sheet Leonardo discusses subjects pertaining to the presence of water on mountains, which is not drawn there by the heat of the sun. The earth does not act "like a sponge"; it is not true that the water in the sea, far from the shore, is as high as the mountains. Writes Leonardo: "The water found in the highest mountains is not there because it was drawn up by the sun, because little of such heat arrives there, as can be seen below La Vernia, the force of the sun being insufficient to melt the ice in the greatest heat of summer; on the contrary, the ice remains stored in the caverns where it was placed at the end of winter [...]".](https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/isd/av/lei_32v_800.jpg)
Codex Leicester, 32v. - Page without figures, containing observations on watercourses and on physical geography. On the lower part of the sheet Leonardo discusses subjects pertaining to the presence of water on mountains, which is not drawn there by the heat of the sun. The earth does not act "like a sponge"; it is not true that the water in the sea, far from the shore, is as high as the mountains. Writes Leonardo: "The water found in the highest mountains is not there because it was drawn up by the sun, because little of such heat arrives there, as can be seen below La Vernia, the force of the sun being insufficient to melt the ice in the greatest heat of summer; on the contrary, the ice remains stored in the caverns where it was placed at the end of winter [...]".
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